| Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia Subjects: RUSSIA -- SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS -- 1533–1917; WORKING CLASS -- RUSSIA; PEASANTRY -- RUSSIA; POPULAR CULTURE -- RUSSIA -- HISTORY -- 19TH CENTURY; FOLKLORE -- RUSSIA; The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed. Stephen P. Frank is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mark D. Steinberg is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. |